Master Deed Condominium Meaning In Virginia
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Does owning a inium mean owning the entire building due to common ownership through one deed? No. In a inium, each apartment is individully owned; each owner has title to their own apartment. Common areas are owned by the inium association or sometimes the developer.
In the US deeds are recorded by a Register of Deeds.. usually there is a Register of Deeds for each county. So contact the county where the real property is located and ask for the register of deeds. You may have to search their records.
Inium is a Latin word that means "Owning property together." That's what it is like when someone buys a condo unit. They have an "interest" in the land beneath the building, but the building's association owns the actual land.
Ownership of a inium unit is evidenced by a inium certificate of title. With respect to real property other than land and inium units, there is no system that is equivalent to the Torrens system for registration under which a document is issued to evidence the owner's title.
Your inium doesn't have a lifespan, but the corporation managing it has one. In the Philippines, 50 years is the lifespan of all companies and corporations, big or small. However, the corporation can still be renewed for another 50 years, so your inium ownership does not necessarily end at that point.
Limited common elements are parts of a condo that are assigned to individual units, but considered community property rather than the tenant's. Examples of limited common elements include windows, balconies, driveways, elevators, clubhouses, and swimming pools.
Maintenance, repair, and replacement of a limited common element is usually the responsibility of the association except to the extent the declaration shifts that duty to the unit owner.
The Virginia inium Act consists of five articles addressing general provisions, the creation, alteration, and termination of iniums, inium management, administration of sales of iniums, disclosure requirements and authorized fees.
A common element is defined as all portions of the property except the units. Examples of common elements include fitness centers, elevators, lobbies, walkways, lighting in common hallways, garbage collection areas, swimming pools, landscaping, club houses, and more.
